For a year now SHARK has documented
horrifically cruel live pigeon shoots at the
Wing Pointe canned hunting dump in Berks County,
PA. On Sunday November 13, SHARK was at
Wing Pointe for another pigeon shoot - but this
time it was a "Tower Shoot."

Tower Shoots differ dramatically from regular
pigeon shoots. In regular shoots, pigeons are
placed in small boxes and mechanically launched
into the air, where one shooter fires at them.
At Tower Shoots, a small wood structure, the
tower, is in the center of a field. Surrounding
it, in a large circular pattern, are about 13
small stations where pigeon shooters wait. At
the tower, a man releases a crate of pigeons at
a time, so that a dozen or so birds are thrown
into the air - and then mercilessly fired upon
from all sides.

Pigeons being thrown out of the
tower by a man hiding within. One of
the shooting stations is seen to the
right.

Whichever direction they fly they face a
hail of gunfire from one of the shooting stands.
These poor birds will often fly in a circle,
desperately trying to escape, yet finding no way
out of the hellish ring of fire. It is torture
in every way.

After a while, a number of
the birds realized the

This piece of garbage violently
kicked wounded birds that were lying
in the grass.

safest place to be was at the tower itself, as
no one was firing there. This proved to be a
temporary safe haven, for when the shoot was
over, the loathsome gang of shooters lined up
and walked through the field, randomly shooting
and wounding dozens of birds. It was a
blood-soaked horror where shooters kicked
wounded pigeons and shot them a few feet in
front of them. This was no "clean-up" of wounded
birds - this was a debauched revelry of death,
and we are sure they left dozens of wounded and
crippled birds behind.

The massacre after the shoot was
over. In a final surge of blood
lust, the shooters randomly shot and
killed the exhausted birds that had
We will soon release a video
exposing this horror for what it was. In the
meantime, meet all the empty-souled pigeon
shooters who laughed and smiled as they
committed heinous acts of cruelty.

We were able to videotape all the
participants, and most of their vehicles. A
number of them were from New York and New Jersey
- a few from Pennsylvania. We'll be looking into
who they are and exposing their cruelty for the
world to see.

The Philadelphia Gun Club's Big
Plan Backfires

In our last
update, we mentioned how the
notorious Philadelphia
Gun Club (PGC) had built a huge,
ugly wall around the riverfront
side of their property to keep
SHARK from watching when they
shot pigeons.

The PGC
went much farther than that;
they built a long stockade like
fence surrounding their property
including an electronic gate on
the driveway. They even put up a
bunch of these signs, which seem
to suggest that they are really
scared of our presence.

Now bear in mind that all this
is meant to protect the
identities of the slimy and foul
shooters who slaughter pigeons
at the PGC. These are wealthy
and prominent people who want to
kill and kill without anyone
knowing about it. Yeah,
that's not going to happen.

Last Saturday, the PGC must
have felt very secure behind
their fences and wall, and so
they had a pigeon shoot. SHARK
was there.

Now here's the
funny part: All that
preparation and literally tens
of thousands of dollars they
spent to build a fortress to
protect the identity of the
shooters backfired. Why? Because
of the gate blocking the
entrance to the main road, the
shooters had to sit there,
waiting for it to open, as if
they were posing for a portrait.

Just like this loser (If
he wants an 8x10 to show his
friends and family how
he
enjoys slaughtering small
defenseless animals, we'll send
him one for free).

We got
a lot of pictures of faces and
license plates of shooters from
that day - except for the one
guy who was really scared and
had his jacket hanging out of
his trunk and over his plate.
But we have his face.

By
the way, if you are going to put
in an automatic gate, you really
need to show people how to use
it. We have video of one guy who
sat too long at the open fence -
and as he approached it nearly
shut right on his truck.

D'oh! Another
second and this guy
would have crashed
into the gate as it
closed on him. And
they let people like
this shoot guns???

As you can see, it was a
busy weekend for pigeon shoots,
but SHARK had it covered. We
will be there when the killing
starts - we hope you will be
there to help support our
efforts.

PA Residents - Visit Your
Legislators in Person

The latest of
many previous bills to ban
pigeon shoots -
SB 626 has been stalled
since last spring. Action is
needed to bring this bill to
vote NOW to ban pigeon shoots.

PA residents, in
addition to emailing and calling
your legislators, please go to
the capitol and/or your
legislators' regional offices
and politely - but
firmly demand that
SB626 be brought to a vote NOW!
Let your legislator know
this is a priority issue that
has gone on far too long and you
want action NOW to stop it!

Please let us know what
response you get from your
legislator. This is very
important.

We are
starting to expose individual
legislators who are against the
pigeon shoot ban. See our video
of PA Senator Jeffrey Piccola -
a strong supporter of live
pigeon shoots. We offered him a
chance to respond, but he chose
not to.

Steve Hindi and Your SHARK Team"Kindness
and compassion towards all living beings is a mark of a
civilized society. Racism, economic deprival, dog
fighting and cock fighting, bullfighting and rodeos are
all cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we
have become nonviolent towards all life will we have
learned to live well ourselves." - Cesar Chavez, civil
rights and labor leader, founder of the United Farm
Workers